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Maybe "reparations" isn't such a dirty word as the rightists would have us believe after all...
"France is to pay $60m (£39m) to mainly American victims of the Holocaust who were transported by train from France to Nazi death camps during the second world war.
The two countries issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing the coming into force of a compensation agreement drafted in December 2014 after years of legal wrangling. The settlement creates a fund to compensate thousands of non-French citizens, their spouses or descendants who were not covered by a settlement programme that France put in place in 1946.
“The United States will administer and distribute this amount to eligible Americans, Israelis and other foreigners and their families who were not entitled to make claims under the existing French programme,” the statement by the State Department and the French foreign ministry said.... "
France to pay $60m into compensation fund for US victims of Holocaust | World news | The Guardian
"France is to pay $60m (£39m) to mainly American victims of the Holocaust who were transported by train from France to Nazi death camps during the second world war.
The two countries issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing the coming into force of a compensation agreement drafted in December 2014 after years of legal wrangling. The settlement creates a fund to compensate thousands of non-French citizens, their spouses or descendants who were not covered by a settlement programme that France put in place in 1946.
“The United States will administer and distribute this amount to eligible Americans, Israelis and other foreigners and their families who were not entitled to make claims under the existing French programme,” the statement by the State Department and the French foreign ministry said.... "
France to pay $60m into compensation fund for US victims of Holocaust | World news | The Guardian